Limitations on plastic production: after Baku, another global failure at the United Nations plastics conference in South Korea.
Oil-producing nations — among them Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia — blocked progress, protecting their interests in the fossil fuels that plastic is made from.
Plastic is NOT an inert substance. It breaks down slowly into tiny fragments that end up even in our bodies: we breathe them, eat them, drink them. It appears that 0.5% of the mass of our brain is now made up of microplastic particles. Nobody knows what effect they have, but it’s hard to imagine it’s a good one.
Writing in il Fatto Quotidiano, Ugo Bardi — a journalist and lecturer at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences in Florence — examines the issue. NN. a Firenze.
Fonte: il Fatto Quotidiano – AMBIENTE & VELENI
By: Ugo Bardi
Photo: The Independent
Date: 11 dicembre 2024
Photo Credits: Il Fatto Quotidiano
